Dear Lazyweb, help!
I'm embarking on a number of summer projects in my new lab at MSU, and several of them focus on using pygr to do cool genomic stuff. In particular, I'm planning to build a personal genome annotation system that will let people run their own full genome …
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So I'm pretty bullish on testing for maintenance reasons. It was nice to see how well it worked out for me when a user recently reported a problem with Cartwheel.
This is what happened: third-party package (LAGAN) that the user was running through the Web interface depended on certain command-line …
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I read a lot of total crap, and one of my recurring crap authors has been John Ringo. He's a total nutjob politically, but he writes good battle scenes and is an enjoyable read once you cut through the nonsense. Still, I'm having a tough time getting through the opening …
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I'm having a long-running discussion with some people about threading and why using threads with simple subprocess calls is almost certainly an overcomplicated (== BAD) use of threads. Everyone seems to think I'm wrong (at least, there's either deafening silence or straight out argument ;) and I think I finally figured out …
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In some discussions with a moderately new Python programmer who seems to value complexity over simplicity, I may have coined a new term:
"Penis size" style of programming -- the (mistaken) belief that the more advanced programming language features you use, the more impressive your code will look.
I think it's …
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Pavel Vinogradov <fastnix> has been keeping me updated on an issue he discovered while testing TCMalloc with Python as a Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) task, task 105.
Briefly, Pavel discovered a situation in which replacing the Python memory allocator with TCMalloc resulted in really bad performance. The latest is …
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